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“There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.”

Made Two Real Past House Mistake Institutions Blame Decades Finance Plenty Giants Bubbles Soar Housing Macs Mae Craters House Prices Housing Bubble

Author:Mark Zandi

“The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.”

Mind Past Law Social Divine Institutions Average Organized Expenses Fabric Proven Majesty Grasping Divine Right Average Minds

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.”

Past Majors Built Stronger Crisis Institutions Financial Shock Infrastructure Resilient Financial System Shock Absorber

Author:Timothy Geithner

“Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.”

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.”

Art Past Approach Importance Institutions Customs Recovering

Author:Raja Ravi Varma

“The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.”

People World Past Courses Forget Money Our Lives Trouble Dangerous Institutions Greed Decades Obsessed New World Over The Past

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”